Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley ‘s birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals.
In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has always gone by her middle name, “Nikki.” She took the surname “Haley” upon her marriage in 1996.
Trump, himself the son, grandson and twice the husband of immigrants, called Haley “Nimbra” three times in the post and said she “doesn’t have what it takes.”
Lol, this was 100% expected, for anyone familiar with old-school racism:
Note Step 2, because this is what gives the game away. It takes some thought to get it wrong several times over, far more effort than needed to get it right once. I have had the sweetest old ladies pull this in my presence, and later when I called them out on it privately had them erupt in fire and fury because [insert all possible justifications for privately downgrading entire races here].
This is just the start. It will get worse.
Surely people haven’t forgotten how he would (and still sometimes does) emphasize Barack Obama’s middle name.
As a deranged Republican once said about Obama, “he’s a Muslim…and an atheist”.,